Malia wrote:[Am I just crazy or does Lord Byron look a lot like Tom Hanks (in his younger days)?

*snort!!!*

Perhaps it was really the goal of portrait artists back in the day not to create a close likeness to their subject, but to create a work that could be a wishy-washy likeness to a whole handful of people, and thus apply in more cases

Byron famously was very careful in choosing the images for his portraits and the last one in my above post was actually vetoed by him and most of the engravings destroyed because he didn't like how he looked "head-on" so to speak.